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...Ranger companies, all of the loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, DSC from the Anzio beachhead, and a qualified paratrooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Men in the Green Berets | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...named Richard Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Over Japan | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...

Author: By S/sgt. GEORGE Avakian, | Title: SPECIALISTS' CORNER | 8/27/1943 | See Source »

...Defense Plant Corporation) is a war branch of Jesse Jones's RFC, with power to build, buy and sell plants, operate them if necessary; DSC (Defense Supplies Corporation), MRC (Metals Reserve Company), RRC (Rubber Reserve Company) are RFC subsidiaries, concerned with stocks of war materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Begats | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...tons. This is 80% of Cuba's total 1942 crop. > OPA raised its ceilings on raw and refined sugar about 7% (24? per cwt. for raw, 20? for refined). While the chief reason for the raw-sugar rise was to bring all prices into line with the DSC-negotiated price to Cuba, it should also encourage increased production, both off-shore and domestic. > This week refiners and large industrial consumers met in Washington to discuss sugar allocations for the year. One likely outcome: requisitioning and reallocation of excess stocks. This would be particularly galling to the big users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Score | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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